flash drive resident antimalware app?

[BobLewiston]

A while back someone suggested having, as part of your antimalware arsenal, some app that could be installed on a flash drive which could supposedly detect any spyware / malware on whatever computer the flash drive was plugged into. (I think the app was DOS-based, and it could work even if the system was severely compromised, although I'm not sure about those two points.) Could anybody tell me about this app? And would it detect a key logger?

[Geek-9pm]

Did you check Portable Aps web site?
http://portableapps.com/node/18140
That link is a year old and it seems they did not get a answer.

[BobLewiston]

Sorry, this should have been posted in the viruses & spyware forum.

[dahlarbear]

1.  Portable Apps.  Thank you for starting this thread.  I would also like to see "informed" comments on this subject.  I'd like to see a list of quality "portable" antiMalware apps assembled...

I haven't yet found a portable program that specifically targets "keyloggers".

I have used the ClamWin AntiVirus off the "www.portableapps.com" website off and on for several years because its "free", "portable", and runs off my USB thumb drive.  It works, but I don't really know how "effective" it is.

I can't really comment one way or the other on the other links I provided.

You might take a look at the following "portable" software:
     o  http://www.superantispyware.com/portablescanner.html
     o  http://portableapps.com/apps/utilities/clamwin_portable
     o  http://portableapps.com/apps/utilities/spydllremover_portable

2.  Bootable CD-R.  Another option might be to run antiMalware apps off a bootable CD-R.

[Broni]

Download, and run Flash Disinfector, and save it to your desktop.

*Please disable any AV / ScriptBlockers as they might detect Flash Disinfector to be malicious and block it. Hence, the failure in executing. You can enable them back after the cleaning process*

• Double-click Flash_Disinfector.exe to run it and follow any prompts that may appear.
• The utility may ask you to insert your flash drive and/or other removable drives. Please do so and allow the utility to clean up those drives as well.
• Hold down the Shift key when inserting the drive until Windows detects it to keep autorun.inf from executing if it is present.
• Wait until it has finished scanning and then exit the program.
• Reboot your computer when done.

Note: As part of its routine, Flash_Disinfector will create a hidden folder named autorun.inf in each partition and every USB drive that was plugged in when you ran it. Do not delete this folder...it will help protect your drives from future infection by keeping the autorun file from being installed on the root drive and running other malicious files.